by BBC Radio 4
<p>Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels</p>
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April 6, 2025
<p>This month BBC Radio 4's Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the writer Michel Faber about his debut novel, Under the Skin. Published in the year 2000 by Canongate it went on to be shortlisted for the Whitbread Award that same year. The book follows the female protagonist of Isserley who roves the A9 in the Scottish Highlands looking to pick up hitchhikers (preferably ones with big muscles). In 2013 the book was made into a film, shot in Glasgow, and directed by Jonathan Glazer. It starred Scarlett Johansson as Isserley.</p><p>Producer: Dominic Howell Editor: Gillian Wheelan</p><p>This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.</p>
March 2, 2025
<p>This month, Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the author Christopher Brookmyre, as he takes questions from a live BBC audience about his debut novel, Quite Ugly One Morning. The book is a pacey crime thriller, not so much a 'whodunnit', as a 'whydunnit', and it introduces us to the wily, wise-cracking journalist Jack Parlabane - a character Chris is still writing about some thirty years later. Published in 1996, Quite Ugly One Morning, was a best-seller at the time, and the actor David Tennant read the audiobook. </p><p>Producer: Dom Howell Editor: Gillian Wheelan</p><p>This was a BBC AUDIO SCOTLAND PRODUCTION.</p>
February 2, 2025
<p>This month, BBC Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the writer Sara Collins, as she takes questions from a live audience about her award-winning debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton. Sara was the Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner in 2019. She has also adapted the book for television.</p><p>Producer: Dom Howell Editor: Gillian Wheelan This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.</p>
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